Perfect-pitched songstress Jane Monheit burst onto the scene in the 1998 Thelonious Monk Competition, and has since emerged as an international jazz sensation. Her first album (named Best Recording Debut by the Jazz Journalists Association) spent over a year on Billboard's Top Ten Jazz Albums chart, her follow-up debuted at #1, and her third has garnered rave reviews. This superb collection features a biography, great full-page photos, and a dozen delightful tunes: Cheek to Cheek • Chega De Saudade (No More Blues) • Detour Ahead • Haunted Heart • Hit the Road to Dreamland • I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good • I'm Thru with Love • It Never Entered My Mind • Never Let Me Go • Never Never Land • Once I Walked in the Sun • Something to Live For.

35 note-for-note transcriptions for those who want to play exactly what they hear on recordings. Songs include: Africa • Against All Odds • Axel F • Centerfold • Chariots of Fire • Cherish • Don't Let the Sun Go down on Me • Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me) • Faithfully • It's Too Late • Just the Way You Are • Let It Be • Mandy • Sailing • Sweet Dreams Are Made of This • Walking in Memphis.

The Telephone was originally written or production by the Ballet Society, and was first presented by that organization with Mr. Menotti's The Medium at the Heckscher heater, New York City, February 18 to 20, 1947. In these performances Marilyn Cotlow took the part of Lucy, and Paul Kwartin appeared as Ben. Leon Barzin conducted two of the performances, Emanuel Balaban the other, while Horace Armistead designed the costumes and scenery.The Broadway production, based on the Ballet Society's, and presented by Chandler Cowles and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in association with Edith Lutyens, began at the Ethel Barrymore Theater, May 1, 1947. Frank Rogier took the part of Ben, Miss Cotlow that of Lucy, and Mr. Balaban was the conductor.

Based in Waco, Texas, David Crowder's innovative alt-pop style has made him one of today's most popular worship leaders. This collection features 16 of his band's best songs, including: Here Is Our King • No One Like You • Open Skies • Our Love Is Loud • You Alone • and more.

Zbigniew Ciechan is a composer, arranger, teacher and author of music publications. He was born at Bystromowce in the Vilna region (Lithuania) on 9 November 1929. In the years 1930 - 39 Zbigniew Ciechan and his family lived in Krasne upon Usha near the Soviet Union border. His father, born to a music - loving family in the vicinity of Krasnystaw, served in the cavalry squadron of the Border Guard Corps. Choral music plays an important role in Zbigniew Ciechan's artistic activity. The present publication contains three works written to patriotic texts. Two of them were granted prizes during the national competition for composers organized in 1979 by the Polish Association of Choirs and Orchestras. The song "Droga Warszawo" (My Dear Warsaw) was composed in 1990.

Teaching Music with Passion is a one-of-a-kind, collective masterpiece of thoughts, ideas and suggestions about the noble profession of music education. Both inspirational and instructional, it will surely change the way you teach (and think) about music. Filled with personal experiences, anecdotes and wonderful quotations, this book is an easy-to-read, essential treasure! One of the most 'real' writings I have read during my 35 years in music education. - Mel Clayton, President, MENC: The National Association for Music Education

Spis treści:

Foreword by Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser
Preface: A corner, a congressman and an Oyster
The 33 P's of a Wonderful Rehearsal
Common Misunderstandings in Conducting
"Put Yourself in a Straightjacket and Dance a Free Dance"
But How Do I get Them to Watch?
Effective Rehearsal Communication
Plain Vanilla Conducting
"What's Hiding in an Empty Box" or Is Passion a Four - Letter Word?
"Do or do not, there is no try"
Those who can - teach
"If You don't know, i can't tell you!"
Postlude: A Lie, the future and a Puppeteer
About the Author

This piece (1998), originally for alto saxophone and concert band, was written specifically for the University of Michigan Symphony Band and the famed professor of saxophone Donald J. Sinta. It was commissioned by the University of Michigan Band Alumni Association and is one is a series of four original works for the band's centennial celebration in 1997.

Commissioned by the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and the Music Library Association, Shakin' had its first performance on February 24, 2006. The composer grew up in the 1960s and her music has been indisputably affected by Rock and Roll. This piece is her tribute to Elvis Presley, as well as Igor Stravinsky. 6 minutes.

Commissioned by the Friends of Today's Music program of the Music Teachers' Association of California, this publication is a great follow-up to Bolcom's previous work, Nine Bagatelles (00294028). Includes notes from the composer for each selection.

100 more favorites from the 1960s arranged in the key of C with larger-than-most fake book notation, and simplified harmonies and melodies. Includes: Alfie • Big Girls Don't Cry • Breaking up Is Hard to Do • California Dreamin' • Daydream Believer • Duke of Earl • Georgia on My Mind • Hang on Sloopy • Hello Mary Lou • It's My Party • King of the Road • Last Train to Clarksville • My Guy • She Loves You • Stop! in the Name of Love • Surfin' U.S.A. • A Time for Us • Twist and Shout • Under the Boardwalk • Wooly Bully • and more.

The latest installation in our super-popular Riff Notes series, this book is a great collection of 61 must-know rock-era riffs, transcribed note for note. Includes: All Day and All of the Night • And I Love Her • Birthday • Break on Through to the Other Side • Day Tripper • Devil with the Blue Dress • Gloria • Happy Together • Here Comes the Sun • Hey Joe • Hide Away • I Can See for Miles • Last Train to Clarksville • Killing Floor • My Girl • Oh, Pretty Woman • Sunshine of Your Love • Ticket to Ride • Turn! Turn! Turn! • Walk Don't Run • White Room • Wild Thing • You Really Got Me • You Shook Me • and more!

This revolutionary way for drummers to learn rhythms uses your natural ability to use rhythm when stressing the syllables of words. For example, saying huck-le-ber-ry or wood-pec-ker gives you an instant understanding of specific rhythms. When rhythms are associated with words in this way, they're easy to understand... and easy to learn!

Jean - François Michel studied music at the Conservatory of his hometown Fribourg (Switzerland). At 18 he won the bronze medal at the International Competition in Geneva, whereupon he was engaged as solo trumpet by the Munich Philharmonic. During his years in Munich (1976 to 1986) he was also active as soloist and chamber musician in various wind ensembles (including the Freiburger Blechbläserquartett, Münchner Gabrieli - Blechbläserquintett, Slokar - Brassensemble). In 1981 he received a "Mention" from the Swiss Musicians' Association. Concert tours have taken him to many European countries, to Japan and the Argentine. He was also first trumpet in the Munich Bach orchestra, conducted by Karl Richter.

Well-known film composer Alan Silvestri (Back to the Future, The Polar Express, Night at the Museum) was asked by the NCAA to write a new official theme to be used for all their sporting events. This impressive new theme opens with a stunning trumpet fanfare and is propelled by a driving rock percussion groove. Sure to become classic stadium and fieldhouse fare! (This arrangement also includes optional easier trumpet parts for less experienced players.)

Ante Grgin was born in 1945. He attended the Music School in Split and in 1965 began his clarinet studies at the Music Academy in Belgrade, in the class of Brun Bruno. He graduated in 1969 and completes his postgraduate studies in 1972 with the highest possible grades.Even as a student he took part in prestigious international competitions in Geneva, Munich and Prague, as well as at the competition Jeunesse Musicale in Belgrade, where he was awarded the second prize in 1970.

For Soprano, Baritone, Chorus and Ensemble.John Harbison was born in Orange, New Jersey, in 1938. He studied at Harvard College and Princeton University before joining the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969. He is the first permanent holder of the Class of 1949 Professorship at MIT. From 1982 to 1984, at the request of Andre Previn, he was composer - in - residence with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and held the same position at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, continuing his association with Previn.Harbison's cantata, The Flight into Egypt received the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1987.

Charles Tomlinson Griffes is said to have originally written these pieces to assist in his own teaching of the Piano, as he could not find any music suitable for his students. He published them under the pseudonym 'Arthur Tomlinson' - combining his brother's name with his own middle name - as he did not want his name as a 'serious' composer tarnished by association with simple childrens' music!

It seems inconceivable that he would have been seriously embarassed by them, since the pieces themselves are well-crafted, attractive and interesting educational material. This book includes 'Six Short Pieces', 'Six Bugle-Call Pieces', 'Six Patriotic Songs', 'Six Familiar Songs' and 'Six Pieces For Treble Clef'.

"I feel that "misbegotten" well describes the fateful and melancholy predicament of the species homo sapiens at the present moment in time. Mankind has become ever more "illegitimate" in the natural world of the plants and animals. The ancient sense of brotherhood with all life-forms (so poignantly expressed in the poetry of St. Francis of Assisi) has gradually and relentlessly eroded, and consequently we find ourselves monarchs of a dying world. We share the fervent hope that humankind will embrace anew nature's "moral imperative".My little "Idyll" was inspired by these thoughts. Flute and drum are, to me (perhaps by association with ancient ethnic musics), those instruments which most powerfully evoke the voice of nature. I have suggested that ideally (even if impractically) my "Idyll" should be "heard from afar, over a lake, on a moonlit evening in August.""An Idyll for the Misbegotten" evokes the haunting theme of Claude Debussy's Syrinx (for solo flute, 1912). There is also a short quotation from the eighth century Chinese poet Ssu-K'ung Shu: The moon goes down. There are shivering birds and withering grasses"."

Following the success of The Living Room Sessions: Hymns (00309819, $14.95), Word Music in association with Rocketown Records is pleased to present the second in a series of piano solo folios from Chris Rice. This matching folio features 13 of the most beloved holiday songs, arranged at a medium-difficult level with chord symbols. Includes: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing • Joy to the World! • The First Noel • O Come, All Ye Faithful • Silent Night • Away in a Manger • O Holy Night! • Welcome to Our World • Angels We Have Heard on High • What Child Is This? • and more.

This piano/vocal/guitar songbook matches the 2002 release from this Dove Award-nominated contemporary Christian artist - a former LA waitress whose break came when her song Why won a contest sponsored by the Gospel Music Association. Including all 11 songs from the CD: Doxology • Even Then • Gratitude • Healed • Holy • I Am • Legacy • Mercies New • My Offering • Never Loved You More • Take Me as I Am.

Steven Curtis Chapman has won Songwriter of The Year from the Gospel Music Association six connsecutive years and dozens of other GMA and Grammy awards. Heaven In The Real World is the matching folio to his hit release featuring 12 songs!

Lambert's third CD, Revolution was named Album of the Year at the Academy of Country Music Awards and at the Country Music Association Awards. The album spawned no fewer than five hit singles, all included here in our 15-song PVG matching folio: Airstream Song • Dead Flowers • Heart like Mine • The House That Built Me • Love Song • Makin' Plans • Only Prettier • Virginia Bluebell • White Liar • and more!

All the songs from their hit debut release, including: Love Don't Live Here • Lookin' for a Good time • Long Gone • Slow Down Sister • Home is Where the Heart Is • Can't Take My Eyes off You • and more.